Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"I say, Holmes, someone's pinched the Great Auk!"

An American has been charged with stealing 299 stuffed birds from a museum in England.

7 comments:

TimT said...

Nah, it's a set up. Someone aukestrated it.

Paco said...

Haw!

Anonymous said...

Stealing stuffed birds from stuffed shirts.

TimT's comment = Brilliant.

RebeccaH said...

Is that a parrot in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Minicapt said...

This is for the birds!!
... the thief then took flight?

Cheers

cac said...

Of course the question is how they got out. No doubt with your appreciation of all things antipodean Paco you would be familiar with "budgie smugglers" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie_smugglers. Are you sure this chap was a seppo and not from some other colony?

Paco said...

cac: This is more my style.

It was definitely a seppo, all right.